Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
非常有意思的片子！8分！什么叫做相爱相杀！这就是！老爷子虽然死在了自己心爱的吊床上，但是再多一点发挥空间就好了！夫妻两人最后发现了财富密码哈哈
你就抡起桌球棍，揍得他们一个个脑浆炸裂哭着叫爸爸..
在糟糕的日子里，救彼此于水火的不离不弃，让祸成为福之所倚。
过瘾！剧情再精短一点就更好了。如果女主选择不救丈夫，领着保险奔小康，然后男主闭气脱鞋自救在续集里继续和女主相爱相杀……当然，情绪烘托到这份上了，这结局也不错。
后半段太残忍血腥了，也太假了，他们俩个普通百姓就能制服三名职业罪犯？已经被打的只差一口气了，满血复活？他爸像个2B一样就冲来了？毫无铺垫。
作为玛吉的导演处女作，视听是真的不错。加上改编自费兰特的原著，总体品质确实相当可以。但几处实在太过刻意，反而令人略微反感，而且直接在电影里谈论文学性真的挺做作的。结尾有些莫名，看不懂。相比《女人的碎片》又是另一种维度的无解。有没有孩子似乎女人都是碎片，要拾起完整的自我必须舍弃太多的东西。追求自我实现（和享受人生）和家庭责任之间有着不可调和的矛盾。当然这些也并无新意，势必是要不断重复的母题。孩子们都是魔鬼吧。
细腻的故事描绘了一个被过去的自我折磨的可悲的女人
差不多三星半，前半段相当不错，后半段血浆有点滥用，希望这类片子在cult的同时也注意一下收放有度，观感会更好一点。
都学学！都学学！每个细节都没浪费！螺丝壳里做道场！
即角色一次出清的太快，让后面的部分失掉了不可预见性，胃口就吊不起来了。
还蛮有意思的，搞笑又紧张，充满了北欧小戏剧的惊喜
真 坑爹的死孩子
本来还以为真的是讨论婚姻困境呢，从第一股血浆迸出开始，一切逻辑和人物都不重要了，剩下的只有残暴和更加残暴。倒是夫妻俩的市侩在最后一以贯之地保留下来。
Noomi依然是打出一套血路 然而回回不一樣 挺好的 擺脫女殺手的形象
这片，也是一遍一遍的反转，但却没让人厌烦。。。因为它不是干反不是尬反，是有紧凑合理剧情推进的，当它一翻一翻的干下来，你会发现全程居然无尿点，酣畅了！
还以为老爷子帅不过三秒，没想到老爷子最后还是帅的
看小一半才发现男主是演《猎头游戏》那位哥……是不是自从大哥演了那片之后找他的都是这种弔片啊……这片特宁浩一卦，整个故事也特国产片趣味。有点像b级片版《两根大烟枪》和《微不足道》的结合体。其实故事编的巨俗烂啊，为了血浆多加半星吧
比预期要好哎，不断加进来的新人物让剧情紧张刺激，恶趣味喜剧配合血肉模糊居然很过瘾。
有些我非常非常喜欢的细节。但总体拍得太美国了，就对“有的女的居然不想当妈也不enjoy motherhood” 还是带着震惊感在讲，最后还要莫名其妙搞个语焉不详的和解。剧情高点那场戏达妹没演好。三颗星全给 Olivia Colman
老头子出场最搞笑但他也便当的太快了点，船在水里转圈还挺美。
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